Seletune

Hist. Brit. (4) 5. 177. Now Silton, Yorkshire. Seleucia. P. L. 4. 212; P. R. 3. 291. (See also Tela ar.) An ancient ruined city on the Tigris, below Bagdad. Pliny writes as follows: “Babylon is now growne into decay and lyeth waste and unpeopled, by reason that Seleucia the cittie standeth it, which hath drawne from it all resort and trafifick: so neere. and was for that purpose built by Nicator within 40 myles of it, in the verie confluent where the new arme of Euphrates is brought by a ditch to meet with Tigris: notwithstanding, surnamed it is Babylonia, a free state at this day and subject to no person: howbeit they live after the lawes and manners of the Maced on i ans. And by report, in this citie there are 600,000 citizens. As for the walls thereof, by report they do resemble an Eagle spreading her wings: and for the soile, there is not a territorie in In all the East parts comparable to it in fertilitie.” (6. 26.) 6. 14 he speaks of it as “Great Seleucia,” to distinguish it from other le er cities of the same name. Selwood. Hist. Brit. (5) 5. 205. A forest of Somersets hire. Senaar. P. L. 3. 467. Explained by Bochart (p. 27) as an alternative form for Shinar. It is usually identified with 273